Article by Ken Dyers
STILLNESS, SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE AND NON-JUDGEMENT

The aim of meditation is to become still. What is stillness and how do we achieve it?

The first point to make is that you are still - you always have been and always will be still - because you are a spirit.
If you consider you are a physical body, then you will not understand stillness, because the body consists of energy, which is in constant motion. If you consider that you are the mind, once again you cannot be still because the mind is filled with thought, which also consists of energy. If you decide that you are either a body or mind, then at that point, by consideration you are.
Some people reaching to understand spirituality say that they are trying to ‘connect with’ or ‘find’ their spirit. This creates confusion because you would have to be something other than a spirit in order to 'look for your spirit’. Yet you are a spirit and unless you can cross that line and understand what you are, you’re not going any place. You will be tied to the significance and the traps of the physical universe. Look around and read the newspapers - there are plenty of people who are making that mistake every day.

So how do we detach from thought?

By locating yourself as a spirit, you are outside of thought. In our natural spiritual state there is no thinking, just experiencing and knowing. You access the mind by choice so there is no energy involved. Just stillness. It’s a matter of physics. This can be difficult to grasp because people are generally operating through their mind most of the time.
A young baby doesn’t use the mind much at all. Thinking is something we learn to do and so a baby naturally has its attention on its awareness - its spiritual perceptions. It just looks and experiences. It is natural to know that we are a part of the spiritual universe, and the physical universe is where the mind and the body are. This is how we start the journey of life.
When you detach from the physical universe which includes thought, you become aware that you are still.

What is the spiritual universe?

To understand, let’s start with the physical universe which isn’t hard to locate because your body is part of it. You can see it, touch it, smell it. Locating the spiritual universe is more subtle. It requires spiritual perception because you cannot see it with your body’s eyes. The degree you are aware of yourself spiritually determines the strength of your connection. Effective meditation will get you back in touch with the spiritual universe.
Many people who compulsively confront the physical often eventually forget anything else exists. By this, I mean they are always thinking about the next physical issue they consider they need to address. It’s a big problem because it is a diversion from who they are. The closest many people can get to the spiritual universe is to believe that it exists, rather than know. When this happens, they have lost contact themselves.
Every person is spiritual in essence and just because they have identified with the physical, doesn’t mean they are physical. Everyone gets back in touch with the spiritual universe eventually. It is just a matter of time.

How can I increase my awareness of the spiritual universe?

By seeing yourself as separate ‘or detaching’‚ from all things physical. By detaching from energy.

When some people meditate they might consider stillness as sitting still.

That is one form of stillness - to be physically still. But I am talking about a different kind of stillness, a complete detachment from the physical universe: Where you can observe, but you don’t have any particular viewpoint. When you are aware of being aware. You see the whole picture. Once you assume a viewpoint, you have lost your stillness because a viewpoint consists of energy, a point from which to view, in the physical universe.
So stillness is outside viewpoints, it is having the whole picture. That’s a spiritual view. The compulsive need to have a viewpoint is an area of great confusion for people. Instead, just view things as they are. Once you have done this, you can adopt a viewpoint to create change. But then, you know you are doing it.

So what do you say to people who are considering meditation to achieve stillness?

Well there are many ways up the mountain. You just have to find the best technique for you. If the meditation assists you in achieving complete detachment from the physical universe, then I say that’s fine.
In my research I have explored all kinds of meditation. Some work more effectively than others.  I found the research done by the Tibetans is accurate. They say that psychic osmosis is the most effective way to arrive at the spiritual viewpoint.

Do you agree with them?

Absolutely. All forms of meditation help. They are all better than doing nothing. But if you really want to get something done and you don’t have a lot of time in one lifetime, then you quickly have to get down to the essence of things, ‘the actuality’, outside of dogma and belief.

When you use the term psychic osmosis, what do you mean?

Psychic osmosis to me means communicating on a lighter level than the mind. If I locate you spiritually outside of the body and mind, there is no motion. A condition of communication exists which allows osmosis‚ or the transfer of mental image pictures. We do this naturally with people we know well and trust. We tune in on a lighter level, a more sensitive and intuitive way. This is osmosis. Just receiving with no evaluation, no effort, just a flow of communication.
Then, you simply know what the other person knows. That is perfect duplication, spirit to spirit. There can be no confusion, no misinterpretation, because there is no thought involved. This is the highest level of communication we can achieve. It is a very ancient technique.
In Kenja, we base Energy Conversion Meditation on this principle. It works fantastically. Many people have improved their communication, their lives, their friendships and relationships by using this technique.

Is judgment a big problem for people?

Yes it is. Most judgment is compulsive. Judgment tends to happen very quickly, before a person has a chance to really experience or understand something. When a judgment is made it comes with a consideration about what is right and wrong, good and bad. If you can withhold from judging long enough to experience something just as it is, then there will be increased understanding. Then you will be in a better situation to respond.

What happens if we are willing to experience the viewpoint of others?

If you do this with a person, you have a better opportunity to understand them because you have stopped judging them. I am not talking about experiencing the viewpoint of a person’s mind. Experience what they are really trying to communicate. Then you will understand their motivations.

Is it possible to experience and judge at the same time?

A person who really has the ability to experience would not judge. The two don’t go together. They would experience things from the other person’s point of view, therefore they would understand the behaviour, not judge it.

Where is your research into Energy Conversion Meditation at, right now?

We have reduced the confusion that surrounds spirituality to an absolute simplicity, a clarity. There is no belief system and no dogma. We are just working on the actuality of things. It’s really a spiritual application of physics. The benefits people are experiencing are fantastic.

Ken, thank you very much.

Thank you

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